I know ENGLISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted Fri September 7, 2007 12:27 pm, by George G. written to Dish Network (Echo Star)

I was home last night and my phone rang. It was some spanish speaking man asking to speak to me. I said in English "This is him". He then asked for me again in Spanish. I said "THIS IS HIM, WHAT DO YOU NEED"!! The criminal illegal alien then said to me and I quote "Speak spanish you son of a bi*ch" then hung up on me. Is that the way you losers make money? Cater to illegal aliens by speaking to them in spanish. How about speaking ENGLISH since we are in AMERICA!!!! I don't have to learn Spanish because I already know it. YOU illegal criminal aliens need to learn ENGLISH!!!! You are not in Mexico anymore. This is OUR country not yours!!!!!! You better take my phone number off your call list ASAP!!!

1. Stop catering to illegal criminal aliens!!!! Make THEM learn English instead of enabling them to keep from learing it!!!!!!

You sure have a handy skill there, yknow, being able to tell ifsomeone is illegally here or not. You didnt even have to run abackround check or anything! I'm sure the department of immigrationcould use someone like you on their team!

Ok, sarcasm aside, this situation just seems... to... ridiculous to betrue. But, if it is true, the rep was WAY out of line, and you shouldwrite to the company. However, I would leave political opinions out ofit, and point out how RUDE he was.

Dont (ass)ume anything. Assuming that this person is here illegallymakes you appear ignorant and intolerant.

What I have to say about your posting is that you have to be anignorant person to be calling Spanish speaking people Mexicans. Firstof all, if you didn't know that South America and Central America doexist. There are over 20+ countries around the world that speak thelanguage "SPANISH". Before you post anything, please know what you'retyping so you won't make a fool out of yourself. People like you justmake me want to laugh. I'm from Argentina by the way, and I speakSpanish!

Wow, I know the rep was rude, but your letter is pretty unwarranted.Just because a rep was rude doesn't mean that Dish "caters" to"illegal criminal aliens." I wish immigrants would learn English too,but it doesn't have a whole lot to do with whether or not they'reillegal.

I totally agree. I had the same thing happen to me. For about a year Ihad telemarketers calling me, asking for me, then speaking in anotherlanguage. Finally I got annoyed and told them if they are going tocall me to speak english. I work in retail and I am sick and tired ofpeople not able to speak english then get mad at me because I cannothelp them. If I moved to China...... I WOULD LEARN CHINESE FIRST... IFI MOVED TO MEXICO..... I WOULD LEARN SPANISH FIRST... I WOULDN'T GETMAD AT THEM BECAUSE I WAS IN THEIR COUNTRY AND I COULDN'T SPEAK THEIRLANGUAGE! AMERICA....LAND OF THE FORIEGNERS!

Ameria = The landmasses and islands of North America, Central America,and South America. There are more Central and South American countriesthan there are North American countries..so in the good USA democracyYOU should speak spanish!

BTW.. this is a 100% hispanic speaking to you..who knowsspanish/english/german/french! Oh my!! Scared are ya?? Your worstnightmare ..and EDUCATED hispanic! I have a master's degree, abachelor's degree and an associates degree..all paid for by my OWNhard work.. YOUR piddly little taxes did not pay for any of it! Oh andI was BORN with my American citizenship! There goes your littletheory!

The reason why a foreign telemarketer contacted you was because youended up on the wrong list that Dish has for its clientle. You endedup on the Spanish speaking list, where Dish employs its telemarketingcustomer service center in...guess...mexico! It's called americanoutsourcing!

I think that your lack of knowledge is killing you. First, noteverybody that speaks Spanish is an illegal alien in this country.Second, Mexico is not the only Spanish speaking country, have you everheard of LATINAMERICA? Did you learn that at school? Did you went toschool? I understand your frustration if somebody called you anddemanded you to speak Spanish, yes this is your country and you areright, we all should speak English while in YOUR country, but pleasebe more respecful of you want to be respected in YOUR country.

While the complaint is valid, I find the tone utterly embarrassing,from one American to another. This is a country where one is presumedinnocent until proven otherwise. The caller's manners may have beenbad, but you have no right to accuse him of breaking federal laws(working here illegally) - just because of his language!

If you were my friend, I'd have cut you off based on this letter. It's appalling.

judging from your letter, no, you do not know English. you also don'tknow how to spell or construct a sentence. that being said, i dobelieve everyone who lives in america should have a working grasp ofthe language. i just don't want dumbbells like you representing me.

you called that other person a moron for spelling illegel wrong butyou spelled something wrong to in your letter, you spelled the swareword wrong, it has a i in the middle not a star in the middle, theonly word that has a star in the middle is wal*mart. if you don'tbelieve me then look at harry potter book 7 on page 589 and they spellit with an i not a star, but if you are from us it is from anotherpage.

you called that other person a moron for spelling illegel wrong butyou spelled something wrong to in your letter, you spelled the swareword wrong, it has a i in the middle not a star in the middle, theonly word that has a star in the middle is wal*mart. if you don'tbelieve me then look at harry potter book 7 on page 589 and they spellit with an i not a star, but if you are from us it is from anotherpage.

I did'nt know telemarketers could call people in spanish...i know mycompany does'nt allow that and others don't as well. First, if thecaller in question was illegal, he would'nt get that type of job bcthey do a social security check and require id and everything...thatswhy alot of illegals work on farms and under the table at localrestaurants. Those jobs really dn't care one way or the other whetheryou're illegal or legal.

YOU liberal idiots are the reason this country is where it is.Allowing these criminal aliens into OUR country. Why are they here?Because we give them FREE healthcare, food stamps, housing. Why thehell not come here? Stop all the freebies and it will stop!!!

Also, What part of ILLEGAL don't you morons understand? There is adifference between LEGAL immigration and ILLEGAL immigration. Maybeyou idiots need to go back to school. I've aready paid for you moronsonce, I guess I can pay again.

Talk about living in an Utopian world! LOL!

By the way, I'm a 3rd generation HISPANIC. My family came hereLEGALLY!!!! See the difference??

When this country becomes Mexico #2, YOU can only blame yourselves!!!!

When you indicated that he asked for you in Spanish, did he say EsJorge (that would be George in Spanish by the way) en casa? Orsomething like that? Oh, that's right. You already mentioned thatyou speak Spanish. So what my dear little friend would make youbelieve that he's illegally in this country? How did you come up withthat piece of information? I'm just curious because you didn'tmention why you thought he was illegal, but did mention that supposedfact in your letter several times. How can you tell if someone soundsillegal? Is that a skill, or may I say a special skill that youhave?

Most of the time calls like that are farmed out to companies thatoperate call centres. The person calling on behalf of the comapny,could be sitting beside someone else who works for Sears. It is notthe companies fault if they farm out the work, who the call centrehires, and who called you. How do you know that there aren't otherenglish speaking people there.

Also, I noticed that you mentionned that you speak Spanish, so then ifthat is the case, what is the big deal, just talk to the person inSpanish. I often get phone calls in French at work, and while myfrench, isn't 100% perfect, I will speak to them in french instead ofinsisting that since we live in Canada that they speak English.

Despite your demonstrated linguistic prowess, is it possible youprovoked a bad reaction from the caller? I mean, what you say here isso hysterical and deeply irrational, I can only imagine what you wouldsound like in the heat of the moment (in any language). In the end,immigration -- of any type -- just might not be your biggest problem.

You're fabulous, Mr. George G. I wonder, when you were in highschool,did you hold protests outside of the spanish classroom? Or maybe youdidn't have a spanish or any foreign language classes.

I totally agree we should not be speaking spanish in america. Weshould instead close ourselves off from the rest of the world, let our'culture' fester and die from stagnation, and make certain that theamerican flag is proudly displayed from the bomb shelters of paranoidpatriots everywhere. Can we join forces?

My brother speaks Russian!!! And he learned it in the United State AirForce!!!!!!!!

He may be a double agent!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, no!!! My mother spoke German!!!!!!!! I bet she was a secretNazi!!!!!!!!

And my father spoke French!!!! I bet he was with the Resistance duringthe war!!!!!!!

And they weren't even illegal!!!!!!!! They were born and bred here.

Why do I say the above? Because of how stupid you are and because thisis the United States of America. People come from all over the worldto live here because of the freedoms we have, including the right tospeak whatever language they want to.

You sir, are an idiot. Illegal criminal aliens? Because they spokeSpanish? So, by your own admission, since you speak Spanish, thatmakes you one of THEM too!

How did you learn to speak this Spanish anyway? Are you sure you'repure white-bred American? After all, a pure AMERICAN wouldn't darespeak Spanish now, would he?

Take a hint from a poster down below: Git yer WOMAN to fix ya up afried baloney sandwich with a Natty Boh chaser, sit back in yerdouble-wide, and watch da NASCAR race. Life is passing you by, boyhowdy, I tell ya what.

We have an Italian last name and live in the middle of nowhere in thedeep South so we're kind of oddities out here.

My dad gets 6 - 8 phone calls an hour from Spanish-accentedtelemarketers and he asks them to stop calling and they don't. Now I'mwondering if that's why they do it, if the white bread Anglicizedfolks in the area are lumping us as non-English speakers even thoughwe're sixth-generation Italian-Americans. They don't even know whereour last name is from, nor can they pronounce it! lol

1. How in the world did you deduce that this person was from thiscompany? It doesn't say anywhere that he claimed this, unless you gotit from the caller ID. It sounds like a prank call. Actually, thissounds like a prank call I'd make... Do you live in TO, by anychance...? If so, I apologize now.

2. You're implying that only illegal aliens speak Spanish, andtherefore anyone speaking Spanish must be an illegal alien. He mightbe a legal American citizen. I speak French, yet I am not an illegalalien from France. In fact, I'm an "alien" from China, yet I speak noChinese. Go figure that one out...

3. So, you're saying illegal aliens should be able to live here aslong as they speak English? Oh, and by the way, do you speak anyNative languages? This is their country, not yours. Ya alien.

4. This is addressed to the PFB community in general. Why the helldoes it seem that every single letter involing someone complainingabout someone else speaking Spanish make it to the Top Twenty-Five?I'm not complaining, mind, but it's interesting.

Those ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIENS!!! are probably what's keeping theECONOMY!!! from COLLAPSING!!! because they are HARD WORKERS!!! unlikethe majority of BIGOTED SONS OF BITCHES!!! like YOU!!!

So sit your ass back down, you're missing COPS or NASCAR or something. And where's your wife, she should make you a sandwich. BALONEY ANDCHEESE, none of that EYE-TALIAN WOP SALAMI that's screwing up theracial purity of your Frigidaire. And just stop thinking about thatnew Taco Bell they're building; the outrage and righteous white anger,it'll just make you hit your kids again.

You want to throw around stereotypes, get comfortable with the onesYOU seem to be perpetuating.

I have to agree with dk.. there is NOTHING in your letter that saysTHEY called you. For all you know, it could have been a crank call whogot your # out of a phone book. You seem like a total jerk. I wouldnever want your business if I had a company. Grow up. Oh, and by theway.. #1-theres no official language for the US so yea.. and#2-spanish is more or less a primary language now, other than English.

So because someone speaks spanish, that automatically makes them acriminal illegal alien?

"I don't have to learn Spanish because I already know it."
Um, ok?

And just for anyone else that's obviously too close-minded tofunction, the US has no official language so they could've called youand spoke norweigan. But then you couldn't have used as manyexclamation points.

"HELL YEAH!!!!! This is AMERICA, and if you love AMERICA like I loveAMERICA, then you can do AMERICAN THINGS, like RANDOMLY CAPITALIZINGWORDS and USING LOTS OF EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!!!!!!!! Like anAMERICAN!!!!!!!!! SOOOOOWEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!"

Great, now I've got the Dukes of Hazzard theme song stuck in my head.Thanks a lot, hillbilly.